This section contains detailed articles elaborating on some of the common issues phpBB users encounter while using the product. Articles submitted by members of the community are checked for accuracy by the relevant phpBB Team. If you do not find the answer to your question here, we recommend looking through the Support Section as well as using the Site Wide Search.

Disabling all extensions at onceExplains how to disable all extensions at once. Useful when you have too many extensions to do this manually or when a rogue extension prevents you from accessing the Administration Control Panel.

How to configure Q&A CAPTCHA.This describes how to correctly configure the Q&A CAPTCHA to show on the registration page and help stop automated registrations. It can also be used as an 'invitation only' protection.

phpBB 3.2+ Text ReparserphpBB 3.2 has a new Text Formatter which is required to cope with the various issues that there were with the old way BBCode was handled, this article explains how to reparse text using the CLI.

Transparent gif's [how to]I see lots of posts on here asking how to make transparent images for things such as site_logo.gif etc. This tutorial shows you to do it very easily using a free tool downloadable from the internet.

Using Bigdump to restore large database dumpsBoth the phpbb ACP and phpMyAdmin have difficulty restoring databases over 2 MiB due to PHP-imposed limitations. This application can get around this by breaking the restore into chunks.